IdentiFight

After trying Spokeo and being surprised how many sites allowed users to be searched for by email address, then reading the reactions of people who'd been sent emails by Spokeo telling them that their accounts had been identified, I decided to make a site that not only would allow anyone to find which of their accounts were identifiable by email address, but would also provide details of how to switch on privacy settings that would prevent this from happening.

Given an email address, IdentiFight searches as many sites as possible and finds accounts that are linked to that email address. It then presents a bit of information about each account, plus details for how to change the privacy settings for each site. There are also links to each site's privacy statement.

March 26, 2008

Comments

Great work. How about LinkedIn?

Posted by: baoilleach on March 27, 2008 1:43 PM

I've started adding LinkedIn, but it's much trickier than the others. There's a link to search LinkedIn for whatever IdentiFight thinks is the person's full name, for now.

Posted by: alf on March 27, 2008 2:26 PM

Could we get a list of the services temporarily turned off due to volume?

Posted by: matthew on March 31, 2008 5:43 PM

I've disabled Facebook, Digg, Yelp, MySpace and StumbleUpon until tomorrow. I need to do proper error reporting, but the server's too busy so it'll have to wait...

Posted by: alf on March 31, 2008 5:47 PM

@alf: THANK YOU for creating this. Thank you, thank you. If your desire is to get funding and turn this into a business, I'll tell you: this is better than PrivacyGuard and all the tools EquiFax et al. make available to consumers.

Posted by: Neil on April 1, 2008 1:24 AM

I have been using your site for a while and noticed you changed the sites you recommend people search after the results pop up. There was another site you used to have up that was great. Do you know the site I am referring to? I can't remember.

Posted by: Tony on April 24, 2008 2:56 AM

Tony: There used to be links to Rapleaf, yoName and ex.plode.us, but I took them off because it would submit the email address directly to those sites when someone followed the link.

Posted by: alf on April 24, 2008 8:27 AM

Stumbleupon is giving the following error.

Fatal error: Call to a member function asXML() on a non-object in /var/www/drupal/sites/identifight.org/modules/identifight/sites/stumbleupon.inc on line 34

Posted by: Anonymous on March 11, 2009 12:02 PM

Sorry about that, I haven't been keeping things up to date and a few are broken. I'll try and get round to fixing them soon.

Posted by: alf on March 11, 2009 12:29 PM

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